[OpenIndiana-discuss] DELL R320

Sašo Kiselkov skiselkov.ml at gmail.com
Wed Aug 29 13:39:30 UTC 2012


On 08/29/2012 03:29 PM, Mark Creamer wrote:
> The PERCs are kludgy with OI because with the correct drivers, you
> will still end up having to configure each individual drive as standalone
> RAID0 in order for the controller to present them to OI for use in a ZFS
> file system.

This is only true of PERC H700 and higher cards. PERC H200 and H310 are
capable of running in true JBOD mode (since they are based on LSI
SAS2008). Beware of the H310-Mini, though, these cannot be reflashed to
the proper LSI firmware due to a nasty little boot-bomb in Dell's BIOS.

Cheers,
--
Saso



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